Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scrymgeour knows how to pronounce his name, or that ancestors of both of us were skirmishers and huntsmen in Scotland "afore the Saxons landed," I do not doubt; but a Scot who supposes that these forbears bore our present, or any other, established surnames must have a head rather less than hard...
This drew hearty applause. But it remained for Manufacturers Trust's dignified Harvey Dow Gibson to win the ultimate in stockholder encomiums. When he concluded a lengthy explanation of the banking drought by expressing the belief that "there is, as we enter the new year, less cause for pessimism than there has been for some time," an unidentified stockholder rose to pay him tribute. After fumbling around for words, the hard-pressed man finally gushed: "If I were a woman, I'd say you're wonderful...
Spiegel, Inc., Chicago mail-order house, started a guaranteed annual wage program for 3,500 employes. Men were assured pay for 40 hours a week, women for 36. If they work less, they will make it up in rush periods...
...small, unassuming man-whose grammar is something less than perfect ("I never had no time for hobbies") but whose 37 years in the catch-as-catch-can grain brokerage business have made him widely known as the "honest Irishman"-was last week elected president of the Chicago Board of Trade...
...Even less is known about Augustus Cobb, except that the practice of law attracted him considerably longer than it did his brother. Neither brother "made" Who's Who, and Augustus was not considered prominent in Alumni affairs...